Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Egypt-Based Zaher AI Raises US$150,000 To Advance Generative Engine... Zaher AI founder and CEO Anwar Aly tells Inc. Arabia how his startup is tackling a key issue in the MENA market: the near-invisibility of Arabic websites and brands in AI-generated responses.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE’s CE-Ventures Backs US$100 Million Round in American Nuclear St... Inc. Arabia spoke to Sudarshan Pareek, Senior Vice President of CE-Ventures, to understand the motivation for the firm's inroads into the nuclear energy domain.
Startup Yara Sayed Allo Beirut CEO Charbel Mhanna on Bringing The Brand "Home" To Lebanon Mhanna tells Inc. Arabia how he is bringing the UAE-born Lebanese dining brand to Beirut—balancing nostalgia, authenticity, and local challenges.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Jahez Secures US$40 Million Facility From The National Ba... The funds will be directed toward capital expenditures for Jahez’s new headquarters, supporting the company’s expansion plans and operational growth across its core markets.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Fahy Studios Pockets US$1.75 Million From Impact46, Merak... Inc. Arabia chatted with co-founders Owais Alsaour, Hani Hashem, and Fahad Alshibl to delve into their journey from an indie team to an emerging player in the global gaming scene and the challenges of scaling up.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Abu Dhabi-Based Professional.me Nets US$3.1 Million From Raha Beach... Founded by Matt Schmid, Megan Adams, and Ryan Adams, Professional.me is rethinking recruitment with personalized micro–large language models (LLMs)—custom-trained language models for both employers and professionals.
News Inc.Arabia Staff 500 Global Launches Sustainable Innovation Program With An Accelera... With this new initiative, 500 Global is seeking to mobilize mission-aligned capital and support venture development across emerging ecosystems in the Global South.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Proptech Coraly.ai Bags US$2 Million In Pre-Seed Round Inc. Arabia chatted with founder and CEO Fouad Bekkar to delve deeper into the startup’s market strategy, product differentiation, and expansion plans.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA’s Impact46 Invests Over US$6 Million In 5 MENA Gaming Studios The firm invested in a variety of startups that range in style from fantasy console worlds to hybrid-casual mobile hits.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Iraq-Based Boxy Nets US$1.5 Million From EQIQ Co-founded by Mehrshad Pezeshk and Ahmed Baqer in 2024, Boxy aims to unify Iraq’s last-mile delivery market by integrating more than 1,500 couriers into a single, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shipping platform.
News Inc.Arabia Staff F6 Group Debuts In Egypt As Flat6Labs Restructures, Launches F6 Ven... Under the new setup, F6 Ventures, a new launched seed-stage investment firm, and Flat6Labs—which has been operating for nearly 15 years—will become subsidiaries of the newly formed F6 Group.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Abu Dhabi-Based Synervest Group Raises US$4 Million Series A Synervest Group founder Alexander Oelfke spoke to Inc. Arabia about the company’s vision for building the infrastructure layer of global finance.
News Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Salasa Closes US$30 Million Series B Round Founded by Hasan Alhazmi and Abdulmajeed Alyemni in Saudi Arabia in 2017, Salasa provides end-to-end solutions for e-commerce, including fulfillment, shipping, inventory management, bonded zones, last-mile delivery, and cross-border logistics.
Incubators Inc.Arabia Staff UgaritLabs Officially Launches at SYNC25, Ushering in a New Era of... UgaritLabs launches as Syria's venture catalyst, empowering startups with global opportunities from Damascus.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Egypt-Based Suplyd Raised US$2 Million Pre-Seed With the newly-acquired funding, the startup aims to move beyond distribution and develop a full-stack infrastructure to serve Egypt’s $10 billion hotel, restaurant, and catering (HORECA) supply chain.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Klivvr’s Nils Bachtler On Humanizing Financial Wellness Bachtler, CEO of the Egypt-founded fintech startup Klivvr, delves into how the company's recent rebrand stays true to its core mission, centering emotion, access, and trust without losing authority.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Egypt-Based Wuilt Raises US$2 Million To Democratize E-Commerce Wuilt co-founder and CEO Ahmed Rostom spoke to Inc. Arabia about his company's mission to make e-commerce accessible to all.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Dubai-Based Innovation Collective Obsession Unveils The Moonshot Ch... Obsession founder and CEO Mohamad Badr explains to Inc. Arabia how The Moonshot Challenge will empower founders to build bold, gamechanging businesses in the MENA.
News Inc.Arabia Staff REACH Middle East Launches To Back MENA Real Estate Tech Dubai Land Department (DLD), the real estate regulator for the emirate of Dubai, has partnered with US-based proptech investment fund Second Century Ventures to launch REACH Middle East
News Inc.Arabia Staff Calo Raises US$39 Million Series B Extension To Boost Growth Calo co-founder and CEO Ahmed Al Rawi spoke to Inc. Arabia about the foodtech startup’s US$39 million Series B extension and its vision to personalize healthy eating.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Flex League Wraps Up Six-Figure Seed Round The founders of the sports tech platform tell Inc. Arabia that they want to redefine how people compete and connect through sports by building a flexible, tech-enabled ecosystem.
Startup Yara Sayed Lychee’s Mohamed Assy On Scaling A Healthy F&B Brand Inc. Arabia spoke with Lychee founder Mohamed Assy to explore how the Cairo-born brand is scaling across the Gulf while staying true to its health-first mission.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Flend Raises US$3 Million To Scale Digital SME Lending Across Egypt The Cairo-based startup will use the new funding to grow its team, expand embedded finance partnerships, enhance its tech stack, launch new products, and deploy EGP1 billion in SME loans within a year.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Applications Open For Sheraa’s Sharjah Startup Studio (S3) Over a four-month journey, the program will bring together 20 startups driving innovation across Sheraa’s key focus areas: edtech, sustainability, advanced manufacturing, and the creative industries.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Journify Eyes GCC Expansion After Doubling Valuation The AI-powered data activation platform is ramping up operations across Saudi Arabia and the UAE as it responds to growing demand for privacy-focused, performance-driven marketing solutions.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Cairo-Based PALM Closes Seven-Figure Pre-Seed Round PALM co-founder and CEO Mazen El Kerdany spoke to Inc. Arabia about his Cairo-based fintech startup’s vision to build a goal-based savings platform in Egypt.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Qlub Cashes In US$30 Million For Expansion For Qlub co-founders and co-CEOs Eyad Alkassar and Mahmoud Fouz, product-led growth isn’t just a strategy—it’s what turned impressed users into inbound investors.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Saudi Arabia-Based Tarmeez Capital Secures Funding From stc's Tali... Inc. Arabia chatted with Tarmeez Capital founder and CEO Nasser Al-Saadoun to unpack the sukuk fintech startup's plans to expand retail access, scale post-funding, and grow digital debt.
News Inc.Arabia Staff UAE-Based Mira Developments Backs New Property Play The US$3 million investment will support the launch and global expansion of a Dubai-based real estate investment platform founded by Nikita Protsenko that targets high-return deals for international investors.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Khaled Bin Alwaleed Backs Sports Innovation Pitch Contest Saudi Arabia’s Sports for All Federation (SFA), which is chaired by Prince Khaled, has partnered with global sportswear company ASICS to support sports innovation in KSA.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff KSA-Based Wittify.ai Wraps Up US$1.5 Million Pre-Seed Inc. Arabia spoke to Wittify.ai co-founders Sarah AlHumoud and Nader El-Batrawi about their company's mission of building Arabic-first conversational artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises across the region.
News Yara Sayed Here's How Endeavor Is Fueling Dubai’s Unicorn Ambitions Yana El Dirani, Head of MENA for Endeavor Catalyst, unpacks how its new Unicorn Builder Program is contributing to Dubai’s vision to create 30 global unicorns out of the Emirate.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Jahez, KIC Launch Kuwait's First Food Innovation Hackathon The hackathon unfolds across seven phases, guiding students, developers, and creatives from early-stage ideas to tech-driven solutions for challenges in the food delivery sector.
News Inc.Arabia Staff Egypt’s Aria Ventures Launches US$1 Million Deep Tech Fund Dr. Amr Al-Awamry, founder and CEO of Aria Ventures, told Inc. Arabia that the fund aims to unlock the commercial potential of breakthrough technologies by backing high-impact deep tech founders from the earliest stages.
Startup Inc.Arabia Staff Dubai-Based Deep Tech Startup XPANCEO Is Now A Unicorn Inc. Arabia spoke to XPANCEO founders Dr. Valentyn S. Volkov and Roman Axelrod about the smart contact lens their startup is building—which they expect to be the next major computing platform.